Re: Amaya 8.8.5 vs. Amaya 9.x

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:15:55 +0200, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net>  
wrote:

>
> Jeff Sabarese wrote:
>> Dear Amaya support:
>>
>> I've used Yum to install Amaya amaya-9.5-1.fc5 (the fc5 version which
>> i obtained via
>> http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?submit=Search+...&query=amaya
>> as per the suggestion at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html
>
> That's not an RPM, it's a list of RPM's. Which one did you actually  
> install?
>
> I'm also finding the search tool at rpm.pbone.net to actually work  
> better, and provide more of the information I need about RPM's.
>
> Also, if you look at the Amaya SRPM's, you see some oddness where  
> depending on the particular graphics tools used, it's either version 8.x  
> or 9.y. I don't know why Amaya has this weird alternate numbering, but  
> it's been this way for years.

8.x has the "old-style" interface, and doesn't come in a Mac native  
version (it uses fink packaging and X11 for Mac) AFAIK. 9.x is the new  
style version.

cheers

Chaals

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